About the Founder
Barbara Welch
has dedicated her professional efforts to helping people achieve financial
success for over a decade.
As a Financial Educator, Barbara partners with employers to provide objective
and practical personal financial management training and coaching to their
employees. Her firm also offers financial education and planning services
to individual clients.
As a result of her commitment to offer helpful and practical tools and information
she has developed a values-based workshop and coaching method called thegoodlife
financial workshop and thegoodlife financial
coaching program. Barbara also speaks and facilitates workshops at conferences
and events. As a strong advocate for financial literacy, Barbara is a member
of the national organization Jumpstart coalition for financial literacy
and has developed an after school financial literacy program called good
life Money Club for students k-12 and has been a contributing financial
writer to several publications.
thegoodlife Financial was established as
thegoodlife Workshop in 2001 as a result
of Barbara's professional experiences in the financial services industry
since 1990, as well as her personal journey to overcome her money management
problems after a failed business in 1999. As a financial educator, Barbara
leverages her past experiences to assist others achieve the good life, by
not simply instructing, but rather guiding, inspiring and giving courage
and strength to open the doors to a different perspective.
Barbara Welch, a licensed financial professional, is president of The Good
Life Financial Inc. She served as co-founder and Vice-President of Generations
Products Inc., from 1997-2000, and she served as Officer and Branch Manager
for Old Kent Bank & Trust Co. from 1990-1997. Barbara earned a Master of
Science degree from the College for Financial Planning, in Greenwood, CO
and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in International Business
and Finance from Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1990.
As part of her audience, you will feel the sincerity and passion of her
words as she encourages
you to discover thegoodlife and to make
it a reality in your own life.
Barbara resides in Grand Rapids, MI with her husband Skot and their two
children, Brandon
and Brooks.